The Nigerian telecoms industry, acclaimed as the fastest growing in Africa, has once again, come under global scrutiny on account of recent activities in the sector. The renewed interest in the country’s telephony landscape is occasioned by a price war that has erupted among the four major GSM operators, namely, MTN, Globacom, Airtel and Etisalat.

The non passage of Cyber Crime bill by the out-going National Assembly has continued to attract condemnations among stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT sector even as Nigeria is still rated high as a result of the ugly trend which has remained unabated.

IN a true democratic society, it is essential to ensure a government that follows the will of the people and not the one that force the people to follow it, that is, a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” as said by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg address which lasted a little over two minutes on November, 19, 1863.

Oceanic Bank plc has introduced a micro health insurance scheme for holders of its micro savings accounts (OMSA).The bank said the micro health insurance scheme is part of benefits for customers who opened micro savings account with the bank.

FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, has again advised incumbent Governor of the state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, to get prepared to leave the Agodi Government House for the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

Most recently, counterfeiting has become so pervasive in Nigeria that not only consumer products, such as household items, mobile phones and automobile spare parts are involved, but professional telecommunication devices,such as two-way radios are becoming affected too.

All seem not to be well at the popular Ladipo market in Oshodi, Lagos State. This is because, the more than five thousand traders in the market are said to be living in perpetual fear of a female Deputy Commissioner of Police serving in Lagos State Command

Christians in Nigeria have called upon to undermine calls to boycott the gubernatorial elect-ions which has been res-cheduled for Tuesday, April 26 which is the be-ginning of the Christian Holy Week because such an act is capable of dis-rupting the current politi-cal process.

Annual ICT conferences, West Africa Information and Communications Technology Exhibition, W.Afri.Tel, and the West African ICT Congress, WAFICT, last week received the nod of the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria, ATCON as industry’s best in the sub-region.

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, at the weekend in Lagos, tasked telecom operators on the need to expand their existing infrastructure to alleviate the current challenges in quality of services which has deteriorated to unacceptable levels